Schools face a downsizing revolution?

It's a great idea, but call me cynical; it'll never happen."some schools are so large that some children are falling 'under the radar' and failing to build up relationships with the staff. The report, which was shown to Adonis last week, calls for each large school to be broken down into a series of small schools serving about 150 pupils". Well, maybe it could, but the cost could be prohibitive; though it'd be a better spend than on ID cards. That said, it could just make sense with the increased drive towards personalisation and some collaborative technological fixes to enable a broader curriculum than would otherwise be possible. Small is likely to be more beautiful in this case. Human scale for human beings is likely to help produce more rounded human beings. Massification tends to bring the lowest common denominator to the fore, and it ain't pretty.
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